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eI THE EVENING STANDARD OGDEN UTAH MONDAY OCTOBER 24 1910
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AM I will appear in the window of the Ogden Furniture Carpet Co a 3 p m two more days He will have a
number in his hand The person guessing the right number will receive 1000 in cash If you make him smile
we will present you with a kitchen cabinet and a Universal range Wednesday October 26th at 6 p m AM I will
be exposed and show the number winning the 1000 Register in the store Your Credit Is Good
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Published Daily Except Sundays by Wm Glasmann
A Fearless Independent Newspaper It
Has No Friends to Reward and No Enemies
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to Punish
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I HEAR ALL SIDES
j While This Paper Has Strong Republican Predilections
I It Is Not a Party Organ and Its News Columns are Fair and
r I Just to All Parties and Creeds
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B H ROBERTS ANDA REPLY
I Evidently there fire two sides to every question and that is
I true even in politics in Utah Here is B H Roberts high in the
I Mormon church striking with all his might in reply to other Mor1
mon leaders and all the bitterness of the accusations is the outgrowth
Ii of the prohibition question in Utah I
We are not in a position to say that Mr Roberts states facts 1
but we present both sidesMr Roberts attack and the reply made j
editorially by the Salt Lake HeraldRepublican this morning
Mr Roberts charges are contained in the following paragraphs
Since the senior senator has chosen to characterize those
who lave charged a deal between the liquor interests in our
r state and the Republican leaders as untruthful and as I am
one who has charged that such a deal was made I will be
equally frank with him and tell what the present status of
my convictions are upon that subject And to paraphrase
slightly his words II I trust my language will be plain and
simple enough and my statement sufficiently broad to cover
the whole matter Thus then it is I not only believe that
it is moral certainty that the deal was made but that it was
made with the knowledge consent and approval of the Re
publican party leaders of Utah including at least the con
gressional delegation from Utah particularly the senior sen
ator from Utah and the executive of the state This is my
belief It is only fair to these gentlemen to say that I have
no direct and absolute proof for my belief and yet it rests
I on such ground of certainty that the stars in their courses
I are not more sure of moving in their appointed orbits than
I that the evidence for my belief points to the right conclu
f sionthe guilt of these parties That evidence is this
The men who negotiated that deal on the part of the
R liquor interests in Utah were men of keen shrewd business
ability They were not novices in the matter of making deals
to ward off unfriendly legislation The material interest in
volved were immense the sum to be paid over for the im
r munity from legislation was large from 32000 to 46000
Under these circumstances was the deal made by these men
negotiated with understrappers of the Republican partYI
with the tyros of the federal coterie Common sense answers
in the negative and reason with unerringjudgment tells us
that the deal was made with those Republican leaders who
could deliver the goods paid for men who could not be
turned down or overruled in the matter and the accusing I
finger points directly to the few gentlemen who have as
sumed to dictate the political fortunes of Utah among whom I
r looms large the form of the senior senator
loomsThis
This political crime of 19089 Mr Chairman this insult I
to the majesty of the state and the dignity of the sovereiofn
people of the commonwealth committed by the leaders of he I
Republican party is
II A blot that will remain a blot I
In spite of all that vain apologists may write r
And though a senator try to cleanse the stain I
He rubs and scours the crimson spot in vain
This deal and other methods of the Republican party
leaders among which are the colicky spasms of periodic re
forms for Salt Lake City ever recurring with the regularity
of our state electionssuch as the stockade raids of two
> years ago and now the policing of Salt Lake City under
the pretext of resisting the II wave of crime in our city but
which really is an effort to turn what they and their advis
ers secretly regard as a neat political trick to gain votes
among the unsophisticated part of our electorate Trans
parent as the thinnest glass is this shameful subterfuge Let
us hope that the time has come when even the long suffering
patience of the good people of our state will become ex
hausted and that an aroused and just public indignation will
drive these unworthy and disgraced public servants into the
oblivion they so richly deserve Respectfully yours
B H ROBERTS
The HeraldRepublican in making reply to Mr Roberts direct
charges says
An unequivocal denial was made when these charges
which Mr Roberts repeats were launched nearly two years
ago Since then the charges have been reiterated from time
to time Recently they have been voiced by the Salt Lake
Tribune Senator Smoot in the course of his address as
chairman of the Republican state convention at Ogden made
= an unequivocal denial of them and he made the denial for
himself Senator Sutherland and Congressman Howell mem
bers of the congressional delegation who were accused and
in behalf of the party The convention believed him and ap
plauded to the echo The HeraldRepublican believes it
and stands on the denial
It was once stated by one of the leading men of Utah
one of the wisest men that ever lived in the state that lB
H Roberts IS an upstart in religion and a demagogue in
politics That statement is just as true now judging from
the letter Roberts has written
as it was at the time this man
said it He makes the
statement that a nefarious deal was
made between Senator Smoot Senator Sutherland Con
gressman Howell and Governor Spry on the one side and
the liquor interests on the other He admits himself ho has
no proof and that it is merely a belief v
It is the word of B H Roberts against the word of
theso men named None of the
men accused by Mr Roberts
was ever for prohibition Senator Smoot Senator Suther
land Congressman Howell and Governor Spry have never
favored prohibition and no one can point to a word or act I
that would lead anyone to believe that they favored state
wide prohibition They have
always stood for the same prin
ciples advocated this year in the Republican state platform
local option and strict regulation
But how about you Mr Roberts Whore did stand
in 1805 when you
0 w en the constitutional
convention
was framing a
state
constitution for Utah
What did
you say heMt was
j commended by a committee in that
SonT 1committee constitutional
conven
tion
that the be
question placed before the
people for their
votes as to whether prohibition should th
become a part of the
t organic laws of the state of Utah Here is what you said
I and you said this as a member of the committee which made
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a majority report against such submission to the people
and you even took the stand that the people should not have
a right to say whether the liquor traffic should be permitted
or prohibited
Now sir prohibition being an experiment and for the
most part an experiment that has failed in my judgment
other gentlemen of course may differ from that but it is a
difference in judgmentbut being an experiment that has
failed I hold that there is nothing binding upon us to at
tempt it by constitutional provision
Politics in Utah gives promise of always being bitter Whatever
the issue the personal encounters are as fierce as in any state in the
union with possibly an exception or two in the South where men are
now and then killed in political fights There is no shooting in Utah
with missiles of lead but occasionally great holes are shot into the
reputations of our politicians and one of the men who often goes gun
ning in politics in the name of Democracy is Mr Roberts and in the
past he has been known to return from one of his hunts with big
rents in his pantaloons where a charge of salt from a Republican
doublebarreled shotgun has bored into his anatomy preventing him
reclining in a comfortable position for months thereafter
THEY ARE TEACHING US
The Canadians in Alberta are teaching the farmers of Utah how
to grow alfalfa although the pioneers of this state were the first to
Attempt the cultivation of lucerne and from Utah the entire west
gained its knowledge of the culture of the clover untiluntil scien
tific farming became part of the campaign of colonization just across
our boundary line in that new Northwest and now as we have said
the Canadians are teaching their teachers
J L Skeen who is here renewing old friendships says he re
members when the cultivating of alfalfa was looked upon as almost
a profitless task in Weber county the plant developed so slowly and
its leaves a light yellow seemed so lifeless
Had the farmers of Weber county been as blessed with scientific
research and assistance as are the tillers of the soil on the Bow Riv
er they would have been saved years of vexatious effort in establish
ing a good growth of alfalfa
Though alfalfa is a now crop in Alberta Canada Mr Skeen says
the seed germinates develops lifts its head above the ground grows
to full maturity with the same vigor as does alfalfa in Weber coun
ty today and that is saying much But neither climate nor soil has
won this advantage for the Canadians Prof Fairfield a young
graduate of the Agricultural College of Colorado obtained a 300
acre tract near Lethbridge Canada three years ago He seeded the
ground in alfalfa butand here is the magic of it allhe did not
trust too much to sun and air and water for he drew from his hand
bag a package of bacteria and scattering a handful over the ground
much as a saintly padre might have blessed the land he said
Be fnictiferous make the seed to take root and grow into
plants well nourished
Fairfield had inoculated the soil with a bacteria which made pos
sible the supi lying of the alfalfa with nitrogen Alfalfa after it
has obtained a vigorous growth will inoculate the soil of the neigh
borhood and soil from an alfalfa farm transported to distant land
will do the same but the quickest method is to have the bacteria do
the work just as it did for Fairfield in Lethbridge Since the young
American demonstrated the advantages of inoculation that keenly
observant body of colonizers known as the Canadian Pacific Irriga
tion Colonization company have engaged Fairfield to inoculate
lands to be seeded to alfalfa and even to treat the seed with the
fluid thrown of by the bacteria and not only that but they have
made the Colorado expert one of their scientific demonstrators
There is something admirable in these wideawake fellows to the
north of us They are ever on the alert to win for themselves new
triumphs Noting that the Gallatin Valley of Montana had a name
for the best malting barley they obtained from Bozeman college the
finest quality of barley to be obtained and they started out to rival
the Gallatin Valley by producing an equally good if not better bar
ley in the Bow River Valley and today they are exporting to Europe
a barley for which the great Scotch dealers in barley Robt Beard
Sons are offering a toncent premium
These Canadians with American advisers took the Kansas Tur
key red and the red Fife from Ottawa and by patient effort and
observing the law of selection early practiced by Burbank with his
potatoes developed an Alberta red and a red Fife superior distinc
tive wheat The wheat set aside each season for seeding is in part
hand selected under the supervision of an expert and sent out to the I
farmers and as a result an excellent hard wheat of constantly im I
proving quality is being produced
The farmers of the United States are in need of the same guiding
wisdom in their cultivation of the soil as is given just across the line
in Canada r
TO ESCAPE BOXER UPRISING
There is little danger of an outbreak in northern China although
reports from the south indicate unrest according to Japanese news
papers that have been recently received which discuss the report
from Minister Calhoun at Pekin that a second Boxer uprising ia
threatened The Yamato says there may be some ground for the
report the uneasiness being due to the reorganization of the army
Pince Tsai Hsun and Yin Ching minister of war are remodel
ing the army and all incompetent officers who held their positions
through politcal influence are being dismissed The old army will
be disbanded and a new one gathered together through conscrip
tion This change may result in riots it is feared The Yamato says
it is a mistake to regard the present Chinese government like that
in existence when the Boxer trouble arose and the situation will
likely be handled without serious disturbances
The Nichi Nichi says the revolutionaries in China are quiet now
and not cosidered dangerous their influence having been weakened I
by reason of the fact that the government has taken up the matters I
included in the revolutionary manifesto The arrangement for an
nexation has greatly weakened the revolutionaries
I John S Goodell engineer of the HankowCanton railroad who
arrived recently from China says the leaders of the antidynastic
movement are busily engaged in the south trying to foment trou
ble Large consignments of arms are being imported but the revo
lutionaries strength is not such that an outbreak is considered im
minent
A PENSION OFFICE COMEDOWN
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In the big barnlike pension office building at Washington there I
is a vast covered court which is nearly 100 feet high Around the j
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top of this court there were until lately a large number of plaster of
paris busts or should we say bursts but their position was so i
lofty that it was impossible to make out whom they were intended
for and in fact they have always been one of the stock mysteries
of official Washington
They were hauled down the other day because they were top
pling and threatening to fall on the devoted head of some clerk or
rubbernecker Then the secret of the years was revealed The I
busts represented Indian prisonersexcept that the architect of
the building General Meigs had sought to immortalize himself and
his family by including their effigies among those of the bad
Indians
Just what freak idea prompted General Meigs thus to ensconce
himself and relations in this illassorted hall of fame will never be
known At first the busts of the Indians were to be sold for old
junk but as they made a valuable collection of typical Indian heads
they will be preserved in the national museum as relics of official
high art in the nineteenth century
DENVER PAPERS
llAVINfBili FI6DT
DENVER Colo Oct 23 Prediction
by a labor union national official that
the buildings of threo local newspa
pers whose pressmen are on strike
will encounter destruction before the
publishers win electrified the Denver
Trades and Labor assembly at a meet
ing this afternoon
Albert Kreltler third vice president
in the printing pressmen and assist
ants union of North America who ap
peared before the assembly asking aid
In the strike was the speaker When
he had finished a committee vjas ap
pointed to investigate the situation
Buildings Will Be Blown Up
Kreltler spate rapidly and after
the first few minutes with vehemonce
but suddenly slowed down and seem i
ed to pick his words
II tell you the buildings will blow
up before this thing Is nettled tho way
the publishers want to settle It lie
said
saidHe
lIe finished his speech amid great
quiet
Persons who attended the assembly
directed attention after its close to
the careful phrasing of the prediction
particularly to the fact that Kreltler
did not say the buildings would be
blown up
WILL PAY COUNTY WARRANTS
Notico Is hereby given that the un
dersigned Treasurer of Weber Coun
ty Utah will at his office on and af
ter this date pay all county warrants
bearing register numbers from No
150192 to No 50G8I Inclusive and that
all of said warrants shall cease to
draw Interest after this date Oct 21
1910
ALMA D CHAMBERS
Treasurer of Weber County
Ogden Utah Oct 21 1910
JJUS1f IFO FUN I I
Cheated
In tho midst of a matinee recital
given by a successful piano virtuoso
with a great shock of hair the house
manager rushed upon the stage In
great perturbation Whats the mut
ter ho demanded of tho stage man
ager All the women are besieging
the box office demanding their money
iback
tbackLuck
1 Luck is against us explained tho
stage manager sadly Just as that
pianist was arousing his listeners to
the wildest enthusiasm his wig fell
orrfho Housekeeper
An Organ Recital
Eight or nine women assembled at
luncheon were discussing ailments
and opeiatlons as eight or nine or
one or two or sixty or seventy wom
en will The talk rang through ang
ina poctorls torpid liver tuberculos
is and kindred happy topics
I thought commented the guest
of honor that 1 had been Invited to
a luncheon and not to an organ re
cltal Everybodys Magazine
Just Pennsylvania Dutch
We were walking along the shaded
street of an eastern Pennsylvania vil
lage when a girl came to the door of
a nearby houso and called to a small
boy playing on tho walk
Gusty Gusty come and eat your
self once Mas on dor table now and
pas half ct already I Housekeeper
Certainly Was Fast
Back from tho road eh How do
you feel
No more for me with that com
pany
panyWhy
Why I am surprised The mana
ger said it was to be a fast tour
And It was a fast tour T only had
one meal a day for five weeksSt
Louis TimesDispatch
Obviously
It seems cruel to slaughter all
those pigs for market said tho Chi
cago girl
I dont know that its cruel re
plied Miss Cayenne But when you
think of what tho packers charge for
the meat It does see ma little un
fraternal Washington Star
Faithful to His Trust
What shall we say of Senator
Smugg
Just say he was always faithful to
his trust
And shall wo mention tho name
of the trust Jyjulsvlllo Courier
Journal
Feminine Logic
llerA woman Is always right
Him How do you figure that out
Her Well a woman Is Isnt she
Him Yes I suppose so
Her And Pope says Whatever
10 Is right SecChlcago News
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Well Instructed
Clergyman Did your mother try
to Inculcate lessons of thrift
Chicago Show GirlIndeed she
did Many the time she said to
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me when I was a child Maggie nev
er live beyond your alimony Life
Held Up
Hands up exclaimed the west
ern train robber Olmmo your
money
10onOT
Too late replied the tourist
get off at the next station and Ive
tipped the porter Philadelphia Rec
ord
Different Now of Course
Civil service reform has given us
a splendid army of civil servants It
wasnt always so
Tho speaker Mayor Whitlock of
Toledo smiled He may have winked
Just the least bit
When I was writing my first short
stories he resumed we had civil
servants of a different stamp An
elderly resident of my native Urbana
sought out back In those days his
congressman
Congressman he said I support
ed you at tho polls and now I ex
pect you to get my boy a good civil
service Job
Do9 snorted the other What can
he do Jerusalem man If he could
do anything do you think Id bo both
ering yon to get him a government
Job
FRENCiiREfUSE TO
ENTER TilE CONTEST
NEW YORK Oct 23There wore
two smnshups no flights and 7500 dis
appointed spectators at the second
day of the International aviation meet
at Belmont Park L I today Tho
wind was so strong that only two
aviators GrahameWhlle and Mold
cant cared to dare It and both 6f
them came to grief though without
personal injuries
But much as the management re
gretted to send away a good crowd
It was more concerned with the dis
satisfaction of the three Frenchmen I
entered for the Gordon Bennett speed
race
Course Not Laid Out Right
Alfred Leblanc tho champion cross
country flyer of France Emil Auhrun
his pupil and the only aviator who
flnlshew with him In the recent Cir II
cuit do lEst and Hubert Latham
all complain that the course is not
laid out according to tho rules of the I
Federation Internationale and Leblanc
wrote to the Aero club of France ten II
days ago asking if the French team I
should compete
They expect instructions by cable
tomorrow or the day after at tho
latest
Tho other four Frenchmen here to
compete for the altitude distance and i
duration prizes are not affected hut
the Gordon Bennett Is the red let
dar ter event of tho aeronautic calen I
Frenchmen May Quit
It brought the international cup to
this country and with it the second
International meet In the history of
aviation
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To havo the French cracks default
would rob the tournament of more
than half Its Interest and so far as
its Important event is concerned of all
Its competitive zest
Alan R Ryan son of Thomas F
Ryan and chairman of tho commit
tee on arrangements was asked If
he had heard anything of discontent
In the French camps v
No he said All I know is that
some of the Frenchmen tried to bring
fourteen or fifteen guests on the field
to show them their machines and
that we would not allow It I should
hao not paid any attention to gossip
if I had heard It
No Communications Received
James A Blair one of tho aviation
committee admitted ho had heard
some mutterings from tho Frenchmen
but added that nothing had been sub
mitted in writing and no notice would I
bo paid to informal communications
of any sort I
When the bomb and bugle bounded
for the first distance event this aft
ernoon the ofilclal code signal gave
the wind from 20 to 25 miles an hour
and it was freshening every minute
Damage to Whites Machine
The sky was clear and It was pain
fully cold Four starters wore an
nounced but after eight minutes de
lay only GrahameWhltc and Molsaut
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Carne out White chlvcred his ma
chine Into the wind and rose cautious
ly Ho needed all his caution for
oven at a height of not more than
10 feet ho pitched like a ship In a
heavy storm and in alighting ca
reened to one side and bplintors wont I
flying into the air His whirring pro
peller had touched and both blades
were smashed to flinders
Molsantc Machine Broken
Molsant never got off the ground
but his machine was much more bad
ly hurt Tho wind picked It out of
the hands of his mechanics and lot it
fall again Both his planes were
criTmpleu his rudder was broken and
his crank shaft bent
WhIto said his damaco could be
repaired In a couple of hours ibis
ant hoped to have
his machine
re
paired by next Tuesday Both hid
machines are now out of commis
sion and unless he can borrow or rent
f 1L V 711 h d 4ik i
one he will not be able to fl > tomor
row The course for tho cup Is 5 kilo
meters long and must be circled 20
times It IB called the outer course
because In tho far turns It continues
beyond the Inner course of 25 kilo
meters used for the hourly speed
contests each day and edging past
tho stables swings back ovor two
clumps of trees and at one point
close to a house
Course Where Aviator May Alight
The Frenchmen contend that the
rules of the Federation Intimation
ale proscribed a course on which any
aviator may alight at any time anti
wherover he chooses They say that
because of tho proximity of the ta
bles and the Interference of the trees
thy would not be free to alight for
repairs as they arc privileged to do
under the rules and that the houao
mentioned above stands no close to
one of tho pylons that tho aviator has
only 30 yards In which to pass be
tween the two
Furthermore they point out that
racing monoplane driven by a 10J
horse power engine has to take tho
turns so wide that It would pass over
the roof of the grand stand which
Is an Infringement of the rules and
disqualifies the aviators
Swears In French
Latham stood by Walter Mumm his
manager while ho expounded objec
tions in English
What do you think about it La
tham was asked
He replied In a volloy of Impetu
ous French and his hearers under
stood him to bay
Do you want mo to commit sui
cide but M Mumm explained that
what he Intended was more nearly to
be translated after this wise
If 1 should tell you gentlemen of
what I think about the course It would
bo equivalent to committing suicide
or at the least of murdering all tho
niceties of politeness
Wright Would Not Allow Machine Out
Tho Wright team Hoxsey Brook
ins and Johnstone were all willing
arid anxious to fly but Wilbur Wright
allows none of his machines to go
out on Sunday and although the man
agement pleaded with him over the
telephone ho remained obdurate
At 1 oclock tho events of the day
were called off
AVIATOR MEETS
HORR18lE DEATH
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o 0
I 0 Dour I Franco Oct 25 0
O Captain Madleot a military 0
O aviator was instantly killed at 0
O the Aerodrome hero today 0
O Captain Madlot was making 0
O his first practico flight at this 0
O course and when at a height 0
O of 100 feel tried to stop his 0
O motor and glide to the ground 0
O The motor continued to run 0
O and the machlno plunged to 0
O tho earth the aviators skull 0
O being crushed 0
O 0
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MEN FIND SKELETON
Of PROBABLE SUICIDE
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HELENA MonL Oct 23Two
young men while hunting rabbits
this afternoon encountered a human
skull and on Investigation found ho
remainder of the skeleton nearby
under a small lice to uhlcn wan sus
pended a rope The man had pjur
ently loon dead for almost a year
and the remains showed that they
had been attacked bj wolves The
I remains were found In a most seclud
ed section of the mountains about
j six miles from Helena The only clue
I to the identity of the man who Is
j believed to have committed suicide
Is a Chinese laundry ticket and this
will be followed up tomorrow The
coroner has taken charge of the re
mains
mainsmHIEUMATISM
PORlFYmG IRE BLOOD
THE ONLY PEHMfiHENT CUBE I
No case of Rheumatism was ever
cured except by a thorough purifica
tion of the blood just as long as the
blood remains charged with fermc t
ing uric acid poison the painful dis
ease will continue The pains and
superficial
aches of Rheumatism arc simply
perficial effects of the impurities m
the circulation and sometimes may
be temporarily relieved by the appli
cation of plasters liniments hot
cloths etc But the person who trifle3
with this dangerous disease by der
pending on local treatment alone is
certain to pay for the mistake with
constant suffering later on S S S
cures Rheumatism in the only way it
is possible to cure the disease It
goes down into the blood and re
moves the uric acid from the circalJ
tion so that the nerves bones mdj
cles and joints arc lubricated and fcd
with noun
1 n g elements
instead of bentf
continually V
cnt ritatcd and ta ¬
S S s Il with UH
sharp u r3 tie
r u i litPtt ri ty I
I Ii When S S S
sed
has cleanse
and purified J
blood the pains and aches cease j
inflammation disappcars stiffens
muscles arc made pliaut and ere J
troublesome symptom of Rhcum ct1
is permanently corrected B0OL p9
Rheumatism and auy medical adfh e
free to all who write
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